And good old investigative reporting. I've only been digging into the Georgia vote cesspool for seven years -- in other states I have put in decades -- and the King family has been at it for generations.
We also had a huge response to our Purged videos (7 million views, 800 million impressions) -- which directed voters of Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin and North Carolina to our re-registration website, SaveMyVote2020.org. Maybe that's one reason that this time, the President was chosen by the voters, not the purge.
But the next two months require the same massive effort and more. This is not partisanship-it's citizenship.
This Sunday, I've been working with our team of 15, including experts, lawyers and crew already in or on their way to Georgia to cover the run-offs and investigate the new tricks we can't yet imagine.
It's not just The Purge. During our investigation for Democracy Now! on the 2017 Congressional race between Jon Ossoff and Republican Karen Handel, we discovered other, cruder tricks: shifting voting stations from Black to White neighborhoods. For Rolling Stone and Al Jazeera, we discovered the state had threatened, and effectively shut down, a Korean-American voter registration drive. And, yes, with Stacey Abrams' help, we discovered that the state simply refused to add newly registered young voters to the rolls.
And along the way, we had to file suits, get insiders to pass us the incriminating information, create websites to inform voters, attend a Trump rally or two and even get busted by Georgia Smokeys for trying to ask now-Gov. Brian Kemp about his purge operations. (Let me not over-dramatize: It was a quick catch-and-release to prevent embarrassing questions while cameras rolled.)
The changing of the political order does not ride in on a wave. It takes years of work " and the next two months will be the capstone.
But this is a truly non-partisan effort. (And Lord knows, the Democratic Party is not happy when I turn my attention to their own shenanigans.) Indeed, I not only gave our information to the ACLU and Black Voters Matter, we also offered our entire file to Secretary of State Raffensperger.
Republican or Democratic, our government should be concerned about wrongly taking away any American's sacred right to vote.
My foundation even offered to pay the cost of correcting the state's lists. So far, the response has been a series of gross prevarications and nasty ad hominem attacks. I can live with that.
It's not my business to defeat a candidate, but it is my business to defeat Jim Crow.
We did not plan for this post-election election. But the War on Voting is now about to get nastier -- and we have the unique skills to expose the attacks.
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